March 30, 2007 Edition 1
Tony Carnie
AN AUSTRALIAN mining company and a local black empowerment group have lodged a formal application to mine heavy minerals from the coastal dunes at Xolobeni, just south of the Wild Coast casino.
The controversial mining application was lodged yesterday with the Minerals and Energy Department in Port Elizabeth. [Read more...]
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By John GI Clarke.
South Africans were disappointed that Blood Diamond failed to win the two Oscars for which it was nominated. But residents from the Sigidi area of the Pondoland Wild Coast – where the film was shot – wanted the film to win so as to keep international attention on the truth of its embedded message and not because they think DiCaprio got the South African accent right. John Clarke, a social worker working with mining affected communities, relates an intriguing instance of ‘life imitating art’.
Three people, fearing for their lives, clamber up the side of a remote African gorge to reach an airstrip above. They have to reach the outside world so they can tell their story. Behind them the camera reveals a panoramic scene: a strong flowing river carving through a deep gorge lined with lush tropical vegetation.
Those who have seen Blood Diamond- the action adventure and African morality tale that earned Oscar nominations for Leonardo Di Caprio (best actor) and Djimon Hounsou (best supporting actor)- could be forgiven for thinking this paragraph is from that script. [Read more...]
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Dear Val,
Would it be possible to forward this to people on your SWC mailing list, who may be interested in this current publication?
Don’t miss this very special edition of PlantLife!
PlantLife’s special, full-colour combined Issue 33 and 34 is an engrossing account of the Pondoland Centre of Endemism, which extends from just north of Port St John’s to the Msikaba Formation sandstone gorges of the Oribi Gorge.
This issue is the work of Tony Abbot, [Read more...]
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‘Only after the last tree has been cut down
Only after the last river has been poisoned
Only after the last fish has been caught
Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.’
Cree Indian Prophecy.
PIETERMARTIZBURG MEETING.
The meeting held by SWC steering committee in Pietermaritzburg provided valuable
insights into the complexity of the task facing SWC, [Read more...]
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